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| Title |
Why are there deadly drugs?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, February 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-015-0270-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Joel Lexchin |
| Abstract |
Some drugs eventually have to be removed from the market because of a negative benefit-to-harm ratio, including an excess of mortality. Drug safety is the result of multiple factors, commencing with how clinical trials are designed, the information generated by and/or hidden through these trials, trial analysis by drug regulatory authorities (DRAs) and the amount of information that DRAs choose to release, the amount of published information regarding drug safety, the effectiveness of postmarket surveillance systems in recognizing and reporting adverse drug reactions, and the structure of DRAs such as the United States Food and Drug Administration and its equivalent in other countries. This commentary will look at each of these issues in order to highlight the problems in the current approach to drug safety and finally indicate how some of these deficiencies should be addressed.Please see related article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0262-7. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 23 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 17% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 9% |
| Canada | 2 | 9% |
| Chile | 2 | 9% |
| Spain | 2 | 9% |
| Cabo Verde | 1 | 4% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Egypt | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Unknown | 5 | 22% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 70% |
| Scientists | 4 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 13 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 13 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 3 | 23% |
| Researcher | 2 | 15% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 1 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 2 | 15% |
| Unknown | 3 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 38% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 15% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 8% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 3 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 August 2017.
All research outputs
#1,490,452
of 23,905,714 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,045
of 3,616 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,777
of 357,659 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#23
of 57 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,905,714 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,616 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 57 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its contemporaries.